What is Neo Impressionism? [Understanding Modern Art]

Neo Impressionism , a style of painting that developed in France in the 1880's which as you may well have guessed from the somewhat unimaginative name functions as a kind of sequel to impressionism. We've already discussed the Impressionists in another video which you can check out here, but today I want to take a look at how the Neo Impressionists were in many ways much more modern than their "classic" Impressionist counterparts.

[tomfreemanorourke]

Incredible commentary...among all the art I have seen, the documentaries and my own artistic evolution over the two centuries I have lived in [I was born in 1953] Your contribution is as clear as the best....A pensioner now so I shall contribute as I can. Love always ..Tom Freeman O'Rourke [Tague]...

[theartshole]

We're back with a look at Neo Impressionism today, a thoroughly modern movement that took as much inspiration from its social and political connections as it did from its basis in the scientific discoveries of its day. Hope you enjoy, apologies for the sound and image quality in places, had some technical difficulties with this one!

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[nightinthevuz]

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[reginaobrien]

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[stefanstern]

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[radioactivedetective]

16:32 - Woooh! That's a turn I wasn't expecting this video to take! ... Very very interesting! I had no idea about this aspect of the Neo-Impressionist (or Chromoluminaire) Movement. It is so much more significant and influential than it gets credit for now in popular media. I have never come across the more political and radical paintings by Signac, Pissaro and others when I looked into Neo-Impressionism on the internet - it is mostly Seurat's 'Sunday Afternoon at La Grande Jatte', 'Bathers' and 'Circus Sideshow' and some of Signac's landscapes - and the focus is always on the technique, never on the politics.
Thanks a ton, as always.

[liamkennedy]

Just wanted to say i love what you are doing and look forward to your videos in the future. As a young artist, i find all your videos very interesting and helpful in understanding what makes great art. So yeah just wanted to say thanks for making the great content and keep it up man, hope you're doing well.

[gencofilmco]

Cheers for the new video. Another superb one. Bravo mate.

[capivara]

When I was in school, I learned about this art movement as "pontilhismo" (the Portuguese version of pointillism) and not neo-impressionisn.

[radioactivedetective]

Chromoluminairism is an awesome name!!! Love it... In terms of popular name-familiarity, Seurat's (and the other Post-Impressionists') works would have perhaps garnered more attention and curiosity had the movement been called Chromoluminairism. For people like me - amateurs and beginners with vague and limited knowledge - Neo-Impressionism seems to imply a revival of Impressionism - but, now knowing all that you have taught in this video, Seurat's Pointilism / Divisionism / Chromoluminairism - in technique and in content and meaning - seems to be as distinct a genre as Post-impressionism, and not a continuation or revival of Impressionism. The critic Felix Fenion did them in with the naming. There is a lot in a name.

[qwertuv]

Thank you so much for such an informative and wonderful video.

[m.i.miller]

Excellent video.. Thank you. Really appreciate these .. so helpful

[florenceduchet]

Thank you for this amazing video, definitely useful for my essay on Anarchist aesthetics!!

[fvjbbds]

Mate you’re so sick, love all of these videos, just found them today and am binging them all. Stumbled upon your channel on one of my regular cezanne searches. Have you ever looked at James Ensor? Quite new to that guy and find his mask images quite powerful and he seems like quite an interesting eccentric character. Anyway man, thanks for these videos - looking forward to the next one

[llynhunter]

"...the prospect of being shot at, preferable to drawing any more plaster casts." Yes! I love your scripts.

[cuebj]

7 minutes in. Missed Seurat's 2 pictures are opposite banks of the river: working class men on left bank wrt painter, middle class mixed on right bank

[etxnjmu]

Just fyi, the violent chaos pop culture understanding of anarchism is basically a photo-negative of how most anarchists would describe it. Anarchism and communism used to be best buds, and both hinge on organizing. And anarcho-capitalists are shunned by most anarchists, as ancaps tend to have shallow ideology which does not withstand scrutiny -- nor does it need to, as it is basically does not challenge existing centers of power in any way.
Anyway. I understand this was a video on art history so perhaps you weren't as enthusiastic to do a bunch of research on political philosophy :) I enjoyed the video, I didn't know about the political beliefs of the chromoluminairies but I've always been fond of Signac's paintings.

[radioactivedetective]

Check out the following link at 20:28 for a fantastic demonstration of Seurat's colour theory:

[lisengel]

Wonderfull examples of paintings. I really enjoy the color palet of Paul Signac 🩵💛🩶

[jazw]

Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) France - On the Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colors: And Its Timeless Applications in All the Visual Arts

FROM EUGENE DELACROIX TO NEO-IMPRESSIONISM – SIGNAC

Anarchists:
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) French politician

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

Jean Graves - The Wreckers